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Inside Only Proven Effective Treatment Chiropractic "Only
Proven Effective Treatment" for Chronic Whiplash Study Says 74% of
Acute Whiplash Patients Improved with Chiropractic A
new study published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Medicine [1]
not only points out the superiority of chiropractic care for chronic whiplash
patients, but also examines which chronic whiplash patients respond best to
chiropractic care. The authors begin the paper by explaining that: "Conventional treatment of patients with
whiplash symptoms is disappointing. "A retrospective study by Woodward et al.,
demonstrated that chiropractic treatment benefited 26 of 28 patients suffering
from chronic whiplash syndrome." [2] The
question was not whether chiropractic was beneficial for acute whiplash
patients, but to determine "which patients with chronic whiplash will
benefit from chiropractic treatment." The authors interviewed “100
consecutive chiropractic referrals for chronic whiplash symptoms,” seven of
which were “lost to follow up.” They were able to divide the remaining 93
patients into three symptom groups: Group 1: patients with "neck pain radiating in a 'coat
hanger' distribution, associated with restricted range of neck movement but
with no neurological deficit"; Group 2: patients with "neurological symptoms, signs
or both in association with neck pain and a restricted range of neck
movement"; Group 3: patients who described "severe neck pain but
all of whom has a full range of motion and no neurological symptoms or signs
distributed over specific myotomes or dermatomes." These patients also
"described an unusual complex of symptoms," including
"blackouts, visual disturbances, nausea, vomiting and chest pain, along
with a nondermatomal distribution of pain." The
patients underwent an average of 19.3 adjustments over the course of 4.1 months
(mean). The patients were then surveyed and their improvement reported as
follows: Group
1 24%
- Asymptomatic 24%
- Improved by Two Symptom Grades 24%
- Improved by One Symptom Grade 28%
- No Improvement Group
2 38%
- Asymptomatic 43%
- Improved by Two Symptom Grades 13%
- Improved by One Symptom Grade 6% -
No Improvement Group
3 0% -
Asymptomatic 9% -
Improved by Two Symptom Grades 18%
- Improved by One Symptom Grade 64%
- No Improvement 9% -
Got Worse In their discussion, the authors made these observations: [1]
Khan S, Cook J, Gargan M, Bannister G. A symptomatic classification of whiplash
injury and the implications for treatment. Journal of Orthopaedic Medicine
1999;21(1):22-25.
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